Team > Dr. Viola Castellano


Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Scientific Career
2021/2022 | Research Fellow, Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna. |
2019/2021 | Post-doctoral Fellow, São Paulo Research Foundation, The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning. |
2014-2021 | Adjunct Professor, Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna. |
2013 | Visiting Scholar, Anthropology Department, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York. |
2011-2014 | PhD, Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy. |
2006-2009 | MA, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology and Ethnolinguistic, University of Ca’ Foscari Venice. |
2003-2006 | BA, Anthropological Sciences, University of Bologna. |

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Current Project
Gambian Returnees as Producers of Knowledge on the Border Regime- funded by DFG (German Research Foundation)
Research Interests
migration and border policies; welfare systems and social services; inequalities and racialization; humanitarianism; advocacy.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Publikationen
2023
Castellano, Viola
Set to see us fail : Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York
New York : Berghahn, 2023
2022
Castellano, Viola
Voluntary Returns or Forced Choices? Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programs in Th ...
In: ROR-n Plattform Bd. 1 (2022) Heft 3. - S. 123-131
doi:10.1553/RoR-n_Plattform_Vol_01(3) ...
2021
Castellano, Viola
Da etnografa a operatrice legale e ritorno : nodi epistemici e pratiche di ricerca nel sistema ...
In: ANPIA
19. Februar 2021
Castellano, Viola
The elephant in the room : Silencing racialization in welfare regimes
In: La Ricerca Folklorica (2021) Heft 76. - S. 67-90
http://hdl.handle.net/11585/865049
Castellano, Viola
Walking a Fine Line : The Struggle for Parent Advocacy in the NYC Child Welfare System
In: City & Society Bd. 33 (2021) Heft 3. - S. 518-541
doi:10.1111/ciso.12416 ...
2018
Castellano, Viola
Revolving door : I servizi per i minori e la riproduzione delle disuguaglianze a New York
Bergamo : Edizioni Junior, 2018
2017
Castellano, Viola
The Politics of Racial Disproportionality of the Child Welfare System in New York
Boundaries within: Nation, Kinship and Identity among Migrants and Minorities
Cham : Springer, 2017. - S. 53-74
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53331-5_4 ...
Castellano, Viola
"We only have rights over operators" : La riappropriazione del "regime di sospetto" da parte de ...
In: Antropologia Pubblica Bd. 3 (2017) Heft 1. - S. 51-74
doi:10.1473/anpub.v3i1.96 ...
2014
Castellano, Viola
Razzismi
Antropologia e migrazioni
Rom : CISU, 2014. - S. 209-220
Castellano, Viola
Vivere le disuguaglianze urbane attraverso le istituzioni : il child welfare system a New York ...
SOUQ2014
Milano : Il Saggiatore, 2014. - S. 68-88
https://aisberg.unibg.it/bitstream/10446/32787/3/c ...

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Dr. Viola Castellano
Senior Research Associate
University of Bayreuth
Building: GW II, Room: 00.21
Universitätsstraße 30
D-95447 Bayreuth
Telefon: +49 (0)921 / 55-4134
E-Mail: viola.castellano@uni-bayreuth.de
Homepage: Anthropology of Global Inequalities